Film research and planning

For the film me and my partner are going to be doing, we are thinking about doing a horror film, we chose this oppose to an action film because with a horror film the cliches and conventions are things that we cant do for examples explosions and car chases whereas horrors we can still stick to the same conventions like the night, the night is a cliche because of the limit of light which a lot of people find scary it is also use in a lot of horror films me and my partner have looked at a few films like Halloween and The Grudge 2.